• AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com
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    11 months ago

    Do you know how many dollars you’d have if you took every dollar away from every billionaire and divided it evenly? Enough for a nice dinner, maybe a very cheap getaway, not enough to stop working or get all your needs met by someone else who is in the same position as you.

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      11 months ago

      Wow, who doesn’t understand economic theory now. Of course that wouldn’t work, you’d have to be a moron to even suggest it.

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        11 months ago

        You’re the one who replied to my deleted comment with " all those billionaires exist" (I can’t actually pull it up in this app now to quote).

        That’s some maoist theory you’re leaning on.

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          11 months ago

          Here you go:

          Can you quantify this surplus?

          Billionaires exist. Are billions of dollars worth of the very resources we need to survive quantifiable enough?

          Who do you think is hoarding both your resources and the benefit of your labour? Who do you imagine is diminishing your capacity for survival?

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            11 months ago

            Ok so America has 300,000,000 people. That’s $3 per person for every billion dollars. Come on genius, bring that math, explain how all those billions divide into everyone having everything they need and everyone else will absolutely deliver those needs.